Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 95% of die castings (formed by forcing molten metal under pressure into steel) are made out of aluminum and zinc, both of which are under priority control. Without aluminum and zinc, the die-casting industry must fold up. Die castings are essential to countless defense products. Yet defense orders (which carry priorities) amount to less than 15% of the industry's business today...
...conserve zinc, automakers have been urged to cut down on castings. They have not been asked to cut use of galvanized iron and steel, which in normal times consumes three times as much zinc as die casting. As substitutes for castings, they have turned to brass (which annually takes twice as much zinc as die castings or steel...
...Adrian Mfg. Corp. (Adrian, Mich.). From 17 employes to begin with, he reached a peak of 960 early this year, plating door handles and radiator trimmings for automobiles, household hardware, etc. His basic manufacturing process reads like a roster of scarce materials: he uses nickel anodes for chrome-plating zinc die castings, which can't be made without aluminum. His best customer: General Motors, whose A. C. Spark Plug Co. can make die castings for G.M. from the scrap aluminum that other G.M. plants produce in the course of manufacturing, and from the zinc of which huge...
Their $600,000.000 industry had been picked by OPM as one of the first real victims of priorities among consumer industries (see p. 18). They were picked because they use a lot of aluminum (6 sq. ft. of sheet per set), as well as zinc, copper, lead, other critical materials. When OPM made up its priorities list, radios were sandwiched "between hair tonic and toothpaste," with a B-7 rating. OPM figured that since U.S. citizens already bend an ear to 53,000,000 receiving sets, more would be a luxury...
...other ways, war's pinch tightened enough last week to raise more than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...